I just hope our government has the attention span to continue carrying out the necessary work over the long term, even when most of the country has forgotten Katrina. The Delta Works took 30 years to complete.

If the Dutch Ambassador wanted to be cruel, he could have made the invitation contingent on Landrieu's pronouncing his name correctly. For those who don't know the name of the Dutch Ambassador to the U.S. off the top of your heads, it's Boudewijn J. van Eenennaam.